Hello everybody,

This is my problem. I have a web based application that handles
appoinments online as well as the creation of user accounts. Each time
that a user creates an account, the application needs to check if the
user already exists. In addition, each time that an appoinment is
made, the application needs to save this data into a serverthat is
different to the web server.

Now, the two databases that contain the customer information
(demographics) and other records such appointments, reside in a
separate server that is actually in an office, I'll call this the
"local" server. In addition, the web based application server is in a
totally different location, I'll call this the "remote" server.

My question: How can my web based application in the "remote" server
have access to the databases in the "local" server?

I have been reading about this in some of the MSN articles, and I have
found out that I can use XML to read the database content and transfer
this into the "remote" server. Is this correct? If someone could point
me out to a good material (Book, article, tutorial, etc) I would
greatly appreciate it.

 Thank you,



Eduardo